rdegges
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8 months ago Figured out the root cause of the issues I'm seeing... The way Glacier works is like this:
- Approximately once per day, AWS will generate an inventory for each Glacier Vault, figuring out how many Archives exist and their total size
- When you delete an Archive, it is an eventually consistent operation, meaning the delete won't happen immediately
- Vaults can't be deleted until all Archives within the Vault have been deleted and a new inventory has been calculated
This means that if you do something like:
- Create a Vault
- Create an Archive
- Delete the Archive
- Delete the Vault
The Vault deletion step will fail because a sufficient amount of time hasn't yet passed so AWS isn't sure the Vault is truly empty.
The solution is to wait ~24-ish hours then re-try the Vault deletion after nuking all Archives. Ugh.
Right now I'm able to get Vault Archives deleted, but for some reason, I still can't get the Vaults to delete even after the API returns a success. Going to isolate and do more testing here.